I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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