The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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