In 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.
ERICA JONGThe sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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