People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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I 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.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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