Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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