Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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