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.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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