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.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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