The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGYou are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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