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
ERICA JONGSilence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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