People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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