Erica Jong

(546 votes)   Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

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(497 votes)   Men and women, women and men; it will never work.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(470 votes)   Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

Erica Jong
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(459 votes)   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.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(454 votes)   Jealousy is all the fun you think they had...

Erica Jong
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(436 votes)   There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship --only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(422 votes)   There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(420 votes)   Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(399 votes)   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.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(391 votes)   Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(384 votes)   And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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1942-, American Author

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(375 votes)   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.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(351 votes)   The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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(295 votes)   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.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(293 votes)   Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating. They made you tingle. Or glow. Or feel young. They were prepared with hormones or placentas or royal jelly. All the juice and joy missing in the lives of these women were to be supplied by the contents of jars and bottles. No wonder they would spend twenty dollars for an ounce of face makeup or thirty for a half-ounce of hormone cream. What price bliss? What price sexual ecstasy?

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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