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
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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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 time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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