The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Home is where your books are.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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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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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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