The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGDon’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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