My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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