The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGIs a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Solitude is un-American.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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