Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGThere are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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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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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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