I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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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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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Solitude is un-American.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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