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 JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Do 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.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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