Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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