Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGSolitude is un-American.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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