The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGCourage is the only Magic worth having.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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 everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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