It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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