It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG
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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Home is where your books are.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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