The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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