It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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