There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
ERICA JONGThe dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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