In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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