Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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