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.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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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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