I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I 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.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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