As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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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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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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