Erica Jong Quotes
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I'm interested in what happens to people when they get into that publicity machine. We tend to think things have changed, but there's still a deep sexism underlying the way women are treated publicly.
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We all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.
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We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
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The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.
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Each of us only feels the torn lining of his own coat and sees the wholeness of the other person's.
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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.
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Court, in our society, is often the last resort of stubbornness.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
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Beware of the man who praises women's liberation; he is about to quit his job.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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I don't think that I had any idea that 'Fear of Flying' would become a part of the culture. I had no idea that it would go all over the world and be published in Chinese and Serbo-Croat and so on.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.
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Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.