The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
ERICA JONGFriends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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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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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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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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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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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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