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.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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