I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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 believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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