Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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