There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGAnd the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Solitude is un-American.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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