Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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