Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGMy reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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