The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I 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.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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