Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONGMany people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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