The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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