What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGUnhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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