My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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