Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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