Erica Jong Quotes
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Many, many people have done a lot more sexual experimentation than I have.
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Plot is just a fancy way of saying 'and then.
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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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Pain is not love. Love flowers; love gives without taking; love is serene and calm.
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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.
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
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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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If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
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I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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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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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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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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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Love is serene and calm
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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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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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.