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 JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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