A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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You 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.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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