What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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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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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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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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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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