I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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