The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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