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 JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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