The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGCompose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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