The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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