I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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