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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Written by Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Written by Erica Jong
Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.
Written by Erica Jong
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
Written by Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Written by Erica Jong
Solitude is un-American.
Written by Erica Jong
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Written by Erica Jong
Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
Written by Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Written by Erica Jong
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Written by Erica Jong
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
Written by Erica Jong
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
Written by Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Written by Erica Jong
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
Written by Erica Jong
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
Written by Erica Jong
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
Written by Erica Jong
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Written by Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving - instead of actually getting up and leaving.
Written by Erica Jong
And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Written by Erica Jong
The trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Written by Erica Jong
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.
Written by Erica Jong
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
Written by Erica Jong
The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.
Written by Erica Jong
Men and women, women and men. It will never work.
Written by Erica Jong
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Written by Erica Jong
Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.
Written by Erica Jong
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
Written by Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Written by Erica Jong
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Written by Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
Written by Erica Jong

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