Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
ERICA JONGAllow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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