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.
ERICA JONGMy 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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