It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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 by exhortation.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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