Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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