| Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Jealousy is all the fun you think they had. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change.... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn't. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| If you don't risk anything you risk even more. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion (as it were) for passion? |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man. |
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- Erica Jong |
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| Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads. |
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- Erica Jong |
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