A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Home is where your books are.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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