People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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