Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGYou 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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