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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

Erica Jong

Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONG

Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record
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.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
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.
ERICA JONG

Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG

Anything Avoid Love Say Want You
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG

City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone
In loving life you love what can’t survive.
ERICA JONG

Life Love Survive
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG

Any Courage Lead Life Take
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.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG

Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women

Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.

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