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.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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