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.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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