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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.

Erica Jong

Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG

Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Besides Depend Intimacy Rare Really Sex Thing
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONG

Carry Momentum Own Word
It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
ERICA JONG

Circle Get Horrible Incomplete Look Lose Older Wonderful
It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
ERICA JONG

Book Call Classic Grow Nature Patiently Shell Them Wait
Home is where your books are.
ERICA JONG

Book Home One Liner
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG

Easier Joy Pain Wordless Write
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG

Always Deceive Life Look Point Someone Spend
Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
ERICA JONG

Always Cheerful Confident Envied Everything Friend Practical Secretly Seem Terrified
I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
ERICA JONG

Ever How Know Life Made Think Touch Understand
To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
ERICA JONG

Act Both First Name Oneself Poet Revolutionary
It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
ERICA JONG

City Liquid Migrate Mirror Once Soul Stone

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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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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