Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGIf 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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