People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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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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