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 JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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