Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG
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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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