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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel

Erica Jong

Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONG

Drop Every Time Feel Five Hit Hundred Leave Mouth Plain Pocket Stomach
Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
ERICA JONG

Earth Every Feel Itself Know Orphan Soul
A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONG

Expand Nearly New Dog Old replace
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG

Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
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.
ERICA JONG

Accept Ahead Back Change Despite Fear Heart Part Pound Say Specially Turn
In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
ERICA JONG

Being Experience Gone Human Spritualm Through
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain
Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONG

Always Art Energy exchange
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONG

Block Emphasis Future Joy Merely Miseries Past Present Shadow
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
ERICA JONG

Curious Indication Most Photograph Reality
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
ERICA JONG

Exploit Group History Idealize Only Powerless Women
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONG

Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time

The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel

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