Erica Jong Quotes
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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What all the ads and whorescopes seemed to imply was that if only you took proper care of your smells, your hair, your boobs, your eyelashes, your armpits, your crotch, your stars, your scars, your choice of Scotch in bars - you would meet a beautiful powerful, potent, and rich man who would satisfy every longing, fill every hole, make your heart skip a beat (or stand still), make you misty, and fly you to the moon (preferably on gossamer wings), where you would live totally satisfied forever.
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It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
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Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.
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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
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I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.
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Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.