Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGDriving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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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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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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