Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
ERICA JONGBecause I loved myself, I was loved.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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