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 JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Home is where your books are.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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 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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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