How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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