Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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