Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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 we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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 best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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