Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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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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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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