Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGFame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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