Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGIt’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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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 soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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