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.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Home is where your books are.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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