It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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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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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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