Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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