You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONG
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG