Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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