Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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