What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGEvery country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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