Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGThe camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Home is where your books are.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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