Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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 parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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