Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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