Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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