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.
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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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