I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Home is where your books are.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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The 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.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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