Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONGThe truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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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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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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 myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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