It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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