Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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 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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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