There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGI hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Solitude is un-American.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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