It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGSomeday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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