They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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 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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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