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.
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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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