And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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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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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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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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