People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONGI believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Home is where your books are.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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