People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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