In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONGWhat I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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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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