As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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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.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG