Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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 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.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any 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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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