The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Home is where your books are.
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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 everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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