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.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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