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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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 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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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 by exhortation.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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