The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONGThere’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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