It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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 exhortation.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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