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.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Solitude is un-American.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Home is where your books are.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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