You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONGHow wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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