Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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