Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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