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.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The 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.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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