Latest Erica Jong Quotes from Interviews

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• I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write.

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  Writing, Thinking, Fiction

• I think men have always been afraid of women's sexuality, and the restrictions they put on women testify to that.

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  Men, Thinking, Sexuality

• The only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.

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  Writing, Mean, Emotional

• What I discovered was is that it's rare to find a person that you feel very intimate with, and you can sleep with lots of people and not find what you're looking for.

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  Sleep, People, Intimate

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I think we’re [men and women] more similar. In that we all deal with our fantasy lives and sometimes are disappointed by reality.

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  Reality, Fantasy, Sometimes

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I was surprised by my daughter's generation and how they were rebelling against the '70s idea that sex was perfect and it should be sought.

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  Daughter, Sex, Ideas

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

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  Sex, Conservative

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.

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  Sex, Reality, Perfect

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I think I've become more cynical about sex. Meaning, I don't think sex in and of itself leads to an epiphany.

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  Sex, Thinking, Cynical

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• Sex just as a drive, as a hormonal drive, is not very interesting.

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  Sex, Interesting, Very Interesting

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

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  Sex, Mistake, Would Be

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.

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  Sex, Intimacy, True Intimacy

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.

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  Sex, Thinking, People

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• I don't think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.

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  Sex, Thinking, Intimacy

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• Most sex is not really intimate.

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  Sex, Intimate

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.

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  Sex, Mystery, Intimate

  "Getting Intimate with Erica Jong". Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 1, 2011.

• It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.

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  Important, Way, Force

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I have enormous pride in the survival of the Jewish people, the cultural heritage of the Jewish people, but I'm not observant, and I don't belong to a synagogue. I don't go to temple on high holy days, but I'm proud to be Jewish.

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  Pride, Holy Days, People

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I don't believe in organized religion. I believe that people should try to connect with their own life force and let it lead them to do with their lives what they will find satisfying.

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  Believe, People, Trying

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I mostly hate organized religion, which I think is a force for the oppression of women and creates warfare.

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  Hate, Thinking, Warfare

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.

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  Thinking, People, Survival

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow.

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  Believe, Writing, Flow

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

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  Morning, Get Up, Feels

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.

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  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

• In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.

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  Holocaust, Weight, Way

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.