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 JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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