There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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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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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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