Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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