If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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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 do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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