I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONGIf you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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