If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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