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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

Erica Jong

Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONG

Betray Betrayal Betrayer
You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONG

Big Dog Expand Heart Love Many Merely never New Old replace Very
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Excuse Full Life Live Pain
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
ERICA JONG

Always Been Forty Past Put Record Six Some Straight Year
I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONG

Anger Enough Know Laughter Old Revelation True
Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
ERICA JONG

Bottle Breast Child Cuddling Done Father Feeding Fondling May Mother Need Nobody Paediatric Succumb
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
ERICA JONG

Camera Chronicle Create Enough Exist Existence Magical Must Transformation
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
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.
ERICA JONG

Amazing Change Cycle Getting Greatest How Judgement Life Older See Thing Understand

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