My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGNarrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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