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.
ERICA JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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