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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.

Erica Jong

They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONG

Along Come Hit Keep Mine Person Right Say Truck
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
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 JONG

Advice Answer Become Get Good Happy Married Philosopher Socrates Wife Wish
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG

Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONG

Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
ERICA JONG

Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG

Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONG

Despair Every Day Given Here Hillside House Lease Loan Me Minute Remember
Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONG

Hope Implies Journal Keep
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our
Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONG

Author Become Famous Know Personality Shakespeare Writer Wrote
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World

In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.

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