I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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 truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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