Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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