Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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