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Letter "E" » Erica Jong Quotes
«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?»
Author: Erica Jong
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«Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.»
Author: Erica Jong
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bullfight, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, circus, circuses, Hollywood, Italy, Spain, The Catholic, The Circus
«Since flesh can't stay, We pass the words along»
Author: Erica Jong
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flesh
«The bruise on the heart which at first feels incredibly tender to the slightest touch eventually turns all the shades of the rainbow and stops aching. We forget about it. We even forget we have hearts until the next time. And then we wonder how we ever could have forgotten. We think this one is better, because, in fact, we cannot fully remember the time before.»
Author: Erica Jong
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aching, bruise, incredibly, shades, shades of, slightest, The Rainbow, The Shades
«Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by its very nature, orders things and life really has no order.»
Author: Erica Jong
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Life
«Surviving meant being born over and over.»
Author: Erica Jong
«I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as part of life specifically fear of change and fear of the unknown;and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says, turn back, turn back,you'll die if you venture too far.»
Author: Erica Jong
«Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.»
Author: Erica Jong
«Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.»
«Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.»
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