Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGIt’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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