The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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