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.
ERICA JONGIn 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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