Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGMy 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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