Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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