I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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