Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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