You 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.
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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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