Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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