Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONGIf sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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