Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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