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.
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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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