People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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