People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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