Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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