As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGHow 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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