Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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