Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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