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.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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