Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGIn 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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