There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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