Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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 trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I 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.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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