The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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 exhortation.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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