I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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