The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONGGossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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