I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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