Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONGYou cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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