I look forward and see myself look back.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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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.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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