Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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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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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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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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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