Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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