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 JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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