As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The 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.
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