Erica Jong Quotes
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I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.
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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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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If they are any good, they have the spirit of the author within. Authors are rogues and ruffians and easy lays. They are gluttons for sweets and savories. They devour life and always want more. They have sap, spirit, sex. Books are panderers. The Jews are not wrong to worship books. A real book has pheromones and sprouts grass through its cover.
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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What a damnably lonely profession writing is! In order to do it, one must banish the world, and having banished it, one feels cosmically alone.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?
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I think a lot of people, when they read about a woman who acknowledges her sexuality and her feelings, get really scared. They say they want to be fearless, but in reality they're terrified. If they acknowledge their deepest feelings, they might have to change their lives.
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
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Great loves have legs and wings. They are substantial. They do not dissapate so easily... Great loves have staying power. Or so I told myself.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Love is serene and calm
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Is there no Villain in this World who doth not regard himself as a poor abus'd Innocent, no She-Wolf who doth not think herself a Lamb, no Shark who doth not fancy that she is a Goldfish?
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.