And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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