Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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 am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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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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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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