It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGThere is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Home is where your books are.
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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 believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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