It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Home is where your books are.
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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 hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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