Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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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 see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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