There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Home is where your books are.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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