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.
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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