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.
ERICA JONGIt takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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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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