No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Home is where your books are.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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 by exhortation.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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