Erica Jong Quotes
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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In loving life you love what can't survive.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.