Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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