As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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