The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Home is where your books are.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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