Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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