We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGReally true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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