Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Solitude is un-American.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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