The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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