It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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