What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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I 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.
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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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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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