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
ERICA JONGJealousy is all the fun you think they had.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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