I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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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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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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