I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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 best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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