Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGTo name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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