How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONGAnd what if I don’t want forgiveness?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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 by exhortation.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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