You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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