People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGThe words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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