Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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