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.
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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The soul is awakened through service.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Home is where your books are.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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