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 JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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