Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONGNo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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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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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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