My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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 by exhortation.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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.
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