What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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