Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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