Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGLoving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The 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.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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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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