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The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Joy
Pain
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Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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In a world not made for women, criticism and ridicule follow us all the days of our lives. Usually they are indications that we are doing something right.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones - like most writers.
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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 don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Sex doesn't disappear, it just changes forms.
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The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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Women tend to be preservers of the social structure, of marriage. They don't want to upset their husbands or their significant others. They don't want to hurt people.
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Mediocre prose might be read as an escape, might be spoken on television by actors, or mouthed in movies. But mediocre poetry did not exist at all. If poetry wasn't good, it wasn't poetry. It was that simple.
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Solitude is considered un-American.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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You're not too fat you're just in the wrong country.
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We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
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A baby's mother also needs a mother.
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My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
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