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“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
-- Erica Jong
#Inspirational #Life #Success
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“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.”
-- Erica Jong
#Mother #Taken #Fighting
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“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.”
-- Erica Jong
#Spiritual #Witty #Women
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“The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.”
-- Erica Jong
#Independent #Thinking #Government
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“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
-- Erica Jong
#Inspirational #Motivational #Being Strong
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“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.”
-- Erica Jong
#Girl #Mother #Art
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“You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.”
-- Erica Jong
#Love #Witty #Women
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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. The parity of women's health. It's very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.”
-- Erica Jong
#Depressing #Fighting #Winning
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“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.”
-- Erica Jong
#Inspirational #Change #Courage
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“Not everybody has to be a parent. In fact, in an overpopulated world where our resources are shrinking, it would be wonderful if people who didn't want children felt free to say so. In the 1970s, there was more tolerance for the idea that not everybody needs to be a biological parent.”
-- Erica Jong
#Children #Ideas #People
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“We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.”
-- Erica Jong
#Fear #Procrastination #Looks
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“Feminism is really the right of women to be full human beings and to not be defined only by their childbearing function. Feminism is really the right of women to be human beings. That's it, yet that's so frightening to a lot of people. A full human being wants satisfying work and love. A full human being is entitled to both, and is not simply defined by only one aspect of her being.”
-- Erica Jong
#People #Feminism #And Love
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“I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.”
-- Erica Jong
#Laughter #Enough #Revelations
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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.”
-- Erica Jong
#Rights #Ideas #Feminism
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“I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.”
-- Erica Jong
#Fear #Fearful
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“Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.”
-- Erica Jong
#Law #Wings #Abortion
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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. 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.”
-- Erica Jong
#Love #Life #Inspiring
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“We've shown again and again, in every UN report on the status of women, that wherever women control their own bodies and have access to education, societies prosper. Men's fortunes go up, children's fortunes go up. This is not news - it's been proven repeatedly. Anywhere those things are threatened, we have to defend them.”
-- Erica Jong
#Children #Men #News
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“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
-- Erica Jong
#Inspirational #Jealousy #Fun
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“Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.”
-- Erica Jong
#Relationship #Marriage #Fighting
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“They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.”
-- Erica Jong
#Thinking #Truck #Persons
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“Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.”
-- Erica Jong
#Inspirational #Mean #Idols
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“I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.”
-- Erica Jong
#Writing #Thinking #Who I Am
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“Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?”
-- Erica Jong
#Shoes #Want #Remember
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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”
-- Erica Jong
#Stars #Night #Thinking
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“Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.”
-- Erica Jong
#Caviar #Taste #Acquired Taste
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“In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.”
-- Erica Jong
#Talking #Years #Leaving
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“Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage -- however often we are hurt as a result of it.”
-- Erica Jong
#Hurt #Believe #People
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“Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.”
-- Erica Jong
#Loyalty #Dog #Heart
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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.”
-- Erica Jong
#Sex #Women #Color
