My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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