Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGThe parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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