As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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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.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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