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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Erica Jong

It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONG

Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Always Been Forty Past Put Record Six Some Straight Year
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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Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Again Battel Depress Fight Heath Over Partly Right Win Women
The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Did Die Love Only Simple Truth Wish
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even More Risk Trouble
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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Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Anger Disappoint Hope Really
Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG

Colour Neither Sex Soul
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

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