Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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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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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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