They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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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 women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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