Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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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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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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