The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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