As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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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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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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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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