There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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