Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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