The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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