What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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 truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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