Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONGI 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Solitude is un-American.
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