I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONGSouls have neither Sex nor Colour.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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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.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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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.
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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.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Solitude is un-American.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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