What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGWomen are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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