Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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