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.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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