Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
ERICA JONGA book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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