I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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 trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Home is where your books are.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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