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 JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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