The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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