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.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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