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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. (Erica Jong)
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. View quote
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household. View quote
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. View quote
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did. View quote
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I remember everything but forgive anyway. View quote
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind. View quote
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Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. View quote
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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. View quote
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Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God. View quote
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Solitude is un-American. (Erica Jong)
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving. View quote
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All natural disasters are comforting because they reaffirm our impotence, in which, otherwise, we might stop believing. At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. View quote
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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 ! View quote
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. View quote
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world. View quote
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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. View quote
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The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise. View quote
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Men and women, women and men. It will never work. View quote
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I know so many women in their fifties, sixties and seventies who delight in being on their own. It's amazing. They don't see any stigma attached to it. We don't need a man to prove our identity anymore. View quote
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god's messenger. (Erica Jong)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Without sex it would be so easy to choose appropriate people to live with. Sex was the joker in an otherwise rational deck. View quote
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad. View quote
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