Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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