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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Courtship
Backward
Ending
Rhythm
Marriage
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Love gives without taking
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Language matters because whoever controls the words controls the conversation, because whoever controls the conversation controls its outcome, because whoever frames the debate has already won it, because telling the truth has become harder and harder to achieve in an America drowning in Orwellian Newspeak.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Venice, that capital city of dream and intrigue, that double city (one above and seemingly solid, one below, wavering and reflected in the waters), which never disappoints.
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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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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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You have to enjoy being a woman. Why should being a woman be such a negative thing where you always have to improve yourself? I have never in my entire life met a man who didn't want to go to bed with me because I was too fat.
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I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.
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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 by exhortation.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.
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