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 JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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