As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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