I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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