Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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