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.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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