Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGI look forward and see myself look back.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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