It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONGIt is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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