Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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