The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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