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 best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Home is where your books are.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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