I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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