Erica Jong - Women Quotes

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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.

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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture.... Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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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.

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If there's anything the world disdains more than uppity young women, it's uppity old women. Dying young has always been a woman's best career move.

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Women who bear children before they establish serious habits of work, may never establish them at all.

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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, our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.

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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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Men must be stripped of arrogance and women must become independent for any mutually nurturing alliance to endure between the sexes.

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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid - as if we'd disabled them utterly. Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

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