If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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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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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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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