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 JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I 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.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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