People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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 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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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