Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
ERICA JONGAdvice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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