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 JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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