It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONGPeople are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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