If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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