There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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 loving life you love what can’t survive.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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