Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGIt is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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