Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONGFear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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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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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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