Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONGPerhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Home is where your books are.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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