People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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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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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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 is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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