There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGBefore things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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