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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.

Erica Jong

It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONG

Able Cry Ever Experience Mist Must Stand Think Use Wonder
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG

Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONG

Circle Get Horrible Incomplete Look Lose Older Wonderful
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONG

Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG

Fun Had Jealousy Think
And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONG

Forgiveness If Want What
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG

Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONG

Hope Implies Journal Keep
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG

Bluntest Instrument Silence
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our

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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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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