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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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