652 Quotes by Erica Jong

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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.

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    Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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    A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

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    ... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?

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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.

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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 were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

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