Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGConflict is the soul of literature.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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