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.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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