Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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