The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGHumor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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