Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGAs women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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