Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGAmbivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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