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 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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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