I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGYou cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Home is where your books are.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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 greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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