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
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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 exhortation.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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