Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Home is where your books are.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Solitude is un-American.
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