Erica Jong Quotes
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I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.
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All people believe their suffering is greater than others.
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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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Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women.
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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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Surviving means being born over and over.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Having stopped expecting truth, we rarely get it.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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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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You're not too fat; you're just in the wrong country.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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You can't be creative and still be a good girl.