Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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