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 JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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