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.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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