Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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 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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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