Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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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.
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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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