I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Home is where your books are.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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