Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONGI am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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