Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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If 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.
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