The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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