Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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