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 JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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