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

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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
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Pain
Feel
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Blocks usually stem from fear of being judged. If you imagine the world is listening, you'll never write a line.
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I 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.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years, intending to leave, talking about leaving -instead of actually getting up and leaving.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
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Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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Good sex is a mystery. Perhaps humping and pumping is not a mystery, but good sex is a mystery, and how human beings become truly intimate remains a mystery.
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Most sex doesn't really bring people together. You have to reach a certain level of connection, I think, and that's pretty rare.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.
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A Soul is partly given, partly wrought remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.
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Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
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Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
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I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Love is everything it's cracked up to be
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