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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Erica Jong

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONG

Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG

Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
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.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
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.
ERICA JONG

Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
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.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONG

Believe Element Function Our Unhappiness
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.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONG

Fun Had Jealousy Think
Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONG

Anger Disappoint Hope Really
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONG

Bullfight Church Circus Country Deserve Every Country Get Hollywood People Person
If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
ERICA JONG

Anyone Draft First Imagine Important Line Listen never Privacy Shown World Write
Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONG

Far Fear Foolish Future Humankind Most

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