Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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