And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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 easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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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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