People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGWomen 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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 by exhortation.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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You 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.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Solitude is un-American.
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