Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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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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