Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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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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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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