Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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