Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGIf you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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