Erica Jong Quotes
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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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. 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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We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began.
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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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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It's not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. ... Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don't feel any experience is complete unless it's recorded.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The worst thing about jealousy is how low it makes you reach.
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I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.
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The body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. 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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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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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, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Language can't be appropriated by one person, one poet. The words belong to all of us.
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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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The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Memory is the crux of our humanity. Without memory we have no identities. That is really why I am committing an autobiography.
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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.