Erica Jong on intimacy
Erica Jong139 quotes“I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.”
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
Erica JongErica Jong What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
Erica JongErica Jong I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
Erica JongErica Jong Anger is really disappointed hope.
Erica JongErica Jong People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
Erica JongErica Jong 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.
Erica JongErica Jong The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
Erica JongErica Jong To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
Erica JongErica Jong I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
Erica JongErica Jong I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
Erica JongErica Jong Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Erica JongErica Jong Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Erica JongErica Jong Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica JongErica Jong Because I loved myself, I was loved.
Erica JongErica Jong I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
Erica JongErica Jong What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Beth MooreBeth Moore My longing for intimacy does not abandon the love I’ve built for myself.
Quinn ZukowskiQuinn Zukowski My longing for intimacy does not abandon the love I’ve built for myself.
Quinn ZukowskiQuinn Zukowski The depth of intimacy we can experience with another person is directly related to the depth of intimacy we can experience with ourselves.
Jacklyn TysonJacklyn Tyson The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
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