Erica Jong Quotes
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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. 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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My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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I am against censorship. I prefer the chaos of uncontrollable communication of all sorts to selective banning of certain materials. I do not think human beings can be trusted to be above politics and to promote the common good. One group's common good is another group's evil.
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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 most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Love is serene and calm
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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Images are ... a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.
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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid... They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Surviving means being born over and over.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.