To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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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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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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