The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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