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 JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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