There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGMy 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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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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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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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