The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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