Erica Jong Quotes
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Eating is never so simple as hunger.
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What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I have lived my life according to this principle: If I'm afraid of it, then I must do it.
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I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
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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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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
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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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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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I have ne'er been in a chamber with a lawyer when I did not wish either to scream with desperation or else fall into the deepest of sleeps, e'en when the matter concern'd my own future most profoundly.
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
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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.
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
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Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.
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If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don't know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Poetry is fired by love.
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Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; he is afraid.