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.
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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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