The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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