It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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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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