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.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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