Why does life need evidence of life?
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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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