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 JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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