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.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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