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More Quotes by Erica Jong
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed
The trick is not how much pain you feel--but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain. Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can't function without it.
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
The soul is awakened through service.
