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 JongWhere is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Erica JongIt's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.
Erica JongGrowing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong