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.
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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Home is where your books are.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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