As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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 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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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