To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONGShakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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