Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGDo you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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