What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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