Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONGIt’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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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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