Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONGOur empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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