Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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