Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGPeople always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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