Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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