Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGMany people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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