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.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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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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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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