It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I 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.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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