And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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