Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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 dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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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.
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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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