Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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