The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGYou can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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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 only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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