Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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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 exhortation.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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