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 JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Solitude is un-American.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Home is where your books are.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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