Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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