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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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