Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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