If 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.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Home is where your books are.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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