I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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 could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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