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.
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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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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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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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