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 JONGI myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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