Anger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGNo 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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