The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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 truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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