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.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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