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.
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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Home is where your books are.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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