People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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