A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
ERICA JONGDivorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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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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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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