The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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