The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGKeeping a journal implies hope.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Solitude is un-American.
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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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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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