It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGLove is love, but marriage is an investment.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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