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.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I 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.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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