Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONGCreativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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