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.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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