The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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