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.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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