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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.

Erica Jong

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONG

Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
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 JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONG

Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
ERICA JONG

Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
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.
ERICA JONG

Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONG

Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
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.
ERICA JONG

Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONG

Book Home One Liner
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG

Any Courage Lead Life Take
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONG

Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONG

Acquire Always Courage Fear Most Taste Thing
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONG

Always Attitude Change History Line People Proceed Social Straight Think

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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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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