Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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