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 JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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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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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Home is where your books are.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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