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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.

Erica Jong

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONG

Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONG

Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
Keeping a journal implies hope.
ERICA JONG

Hope Implies Journal Keep
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG

Dead Like Loneliness Marriage
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONG

Being Between Body Create Different Do Drive Everything Human Little Men Office Only Simultaneously Tractor Women Work
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONG

Backward Courtship End Like Marriage Rhythm
If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
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.
ERICA JONG

Believe Choose Express Intellect Live Love Motherhood Passionately Themselves Women
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG

All Ambivalence Dance Own Rhythm Tune Wonderful
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG

Come Dog Live Love Loyalty
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONG

Anything Far Interesting Life More Plot Say
I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
ERICA JONG

Age Believe Close Consciousness Enjoy Every Fictional Identity Own People Read Time Transcend Whether
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG

Excuse Full Life Live Pain

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