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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.

Erica Jong

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 JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONG

Compass Utter Discipline Edit Freedom
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG

Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
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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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG

Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
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.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG

Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG

Any Courage Lead Life Take
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG

Advice Already Answer Ask Know Wish
Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONG

Always Art Energy exchange
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.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
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.
ERICA JONG

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONG

Equivalent Existence Perception

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