Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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