Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGYou cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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