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 JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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