The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGYou see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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In 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.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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If 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.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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