In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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