I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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