You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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