Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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