I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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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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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 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.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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