Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
ERICA JONGI stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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