There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG