Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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