Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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