Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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