It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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