I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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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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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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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