Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
ERICA JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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