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.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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 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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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