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.
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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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