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.
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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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