I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Solitude is un-American.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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