A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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