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 JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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