How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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