652 Quotes by Erica Jong
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I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone – the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?
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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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You’re afraid he’ll leave you and you’ll fall apart. You don’t know that you can get along without him and you’re afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You’ll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.
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My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem – then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.
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It’s hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously.
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I don’t believe what you believe,” I yelled, “and I don’t respect your beliefs and I don’t respect you for holding them. If you can honestly make a statement like that about the power behind the throne, how can you possibly understand anything about me or the things I’m struggling with? I don’t want to live by the things you live by, I don’t want that kind of life and I don’t see why I should be judged by its standards.
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I have forgotten my rave reviews and memorized my vicious ones – like most writers.
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If I wrote that women could be unkind, I was considered a traitor – as if it were not worse treachery to pretend that all women were kind.
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We find our calling or it finds us, and it’s a sin against the fates not to use your talent when you have it.
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