Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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 exhortation.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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