Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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