The soul is awakened through service.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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My 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.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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