Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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