Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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