Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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