Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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