They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGThere is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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.
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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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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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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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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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