There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGI do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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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 don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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