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.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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