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ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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 advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Solitude is un-American.
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