I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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