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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.

Erica Jong

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 JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
Conflict is the soul of literature.
ERICA JONG

Conflict Literature Soul
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG

Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG

Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG

Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG

Blame Hand Happen Life Own Take Terrible Thing
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG

Any Courage Lead Life Take
The 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.
ERICA JONG

Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn

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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