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.
ERICA JONGIt’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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