Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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