Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Home is where your books are.
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