I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONGIt 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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