As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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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 don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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 best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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