As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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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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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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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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