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 JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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