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
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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