Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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 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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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