I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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