American - Novelist | March 26, 1942 -
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
Erica Jong
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I think feminism means what it has always meant - women want to use all their gifts, all their talents and be judged impartially for them. I don't think feminism has ever meant anything else.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
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Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.
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If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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.
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