Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGWomen 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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