Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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