Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONGI want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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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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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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