Erica Jong Quotes
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There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
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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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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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As a reader, I want a book to kidnap me into its world. Its world must make my so-called real world seem flimsy. Its world must lure me to return. When I close the book, I should feel bereft.
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of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Home is where your books are.
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Why do analysts always answer a question with a question?
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What makes a Man love Death, Fanny? Is it because he hopes to avert his own by watchin' the Deaths of others? Doth he hope to devour Death by devourin' Executions with his Eyes? I'll ne'er understand it, if I live to be eight hundred Years. The Human Beast is more Beast than Human, 'tis true.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.