I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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