Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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