Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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 exhortation.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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