The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.


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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed
ERICA JONG
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think...
ERICA JONG
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from th...
ERICA JONG
Anybody who instantly goes from being a poet and a graduate student to being a public figure has to ...
ERICA JONG
Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the ve...
ERICA JONG
We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion
ERICA JONG
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue. If we have enough friends, we may go on for years...
ERICA JONG
Beware of books. They are more than innocent assemblages of paper and ink and string and glue. If th...
ERICA JONG
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm tal...
ERICA JONG
In poetry you can express almost inexpressible feelings. You can express the pain of loss, you can e...
ERICA JONG
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one is to blame.
ERICA JONG
Life has no plot. It is far more interesting than anything you can say about it because language, by...
ERICA JONG
When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they ...
ERICA JONG
The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as p...
ERICA JONG
I can live without it all / love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their pea...
ERICA JONG
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
ERICA JONG
Fear of Flying
ERICA JONG
In my view, everything was indeed about her. His romancing me was about her, his conversation about ...
ERICA JONG
Surviving meant being born over and over.
ERICA JONG
Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
ERICA JONG
The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job. The ultimate weapon in the war b...
ERICA JONG
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG
It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up wi...
ERICA JONG
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have...
ERICA JONG
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be ju...
ERICA JONG
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. Yo...
ERICA JONG
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
ERICA JONG
If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead t...
ERICA JONG
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONG
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing s...
ERICA JONG
Will you ever? I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you've touched my life and made me...
ERICA JONG
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despit...
ERICA JONG