I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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.
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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.
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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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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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