Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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