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.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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