I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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