People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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