As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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