It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGIn 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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