Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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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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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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