Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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