Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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