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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Category: Advice Author: 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.
Category: Fear Author: 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?
Category: Feminism Author: Erica Jong
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Category: Feminism Author: 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.
Category: Feminism Author: 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.
Category: Gossip Author: Erica Jong
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Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Category: Men Author: Erica Jong
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Category: Responsibility Author: Erica Jong
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My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
Category: Sex Author: Erica Jong
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