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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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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 do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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