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 JONGThe future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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 soul is awakened through service.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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