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.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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 look forward and see myself look back.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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