Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGIf we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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