If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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