If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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