The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGAlways do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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