Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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