Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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