It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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 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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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