The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGPhotographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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