The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGThe 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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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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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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