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?

Famous Quotes / Erica Jong

Authors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Erica Jong: "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?"

Quotations about

Adornment	Bliss	Bottles	Centuries
Contents	Cosmetics	Cream	Dollars
Ecstasy	Face	Fashion	Feel
Firming	Glow	Halfounce	Hormone
Hormones	Into	Invigorating	Isnt
Jars	Jelly	Juice	Lives
Love	Made	Makeup	Missing
Names	Obscenely	Obvious	Ounce
Passion	Placentas	Prepared	Price
Problem	Promises	Royal	Seemed
Sexual	Spend	Substituting	Supplied
Swindled	These	Thirty	Tingle
Twenty	Uplifting	Women	Wonder
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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