If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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