Erica Jong Quotes About Guilt

Quotes about: Guilt

• Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

  Erica Jong

  Witty, Powerful, Women

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Open Road Media

• Generations of women have sacrificed their lives to become their mothers. But we do not have that luxury any more. The world has changed too much to let us have the lives our mothers had. And we can no longer afford the guilt we feel at not being our mothers. We cannot afford any guilt that pulls us back to the past. We have to grow up, whether we want to or not. We have to stop blaming men and mothers and seize every second of our lives with passion. We can no longer afford to waste our creativity. We cannot afford spiritual laziness.

  Erica Jong

  Daughter, Mother, Spiritual

• 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.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Worst Enemy, Self

  erica jong “fear of flying”

• Denounce useless guilt. Don’t make a cult of suffering. Live in the now(or at least the soon). Always do the things you fear most. Courage is an acquired taste like caviar. Trust all joy. If the evil eye fixes you in its gaze, look elsewhere. Get ready to be 87.

  Erica Jong

  Eye, Evil, Joy

• Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.

  Erica Jong

  Voice, Silence, Guilt

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.153, Open Road Media

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