Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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, 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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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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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