Erica Jong Quotes

Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.

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Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild -- and what happened? The men wilted

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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world

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Betrayal does that -- betrays the betrayer.

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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. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

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Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.

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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

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