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.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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