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.
ERICA JONGHow 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.
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 hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Home is where your books are.
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