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Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Erica Jong

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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
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Divorce
Anything
Generation
Generations
Seem
Scarring
Coming
Bearable
Age
Afterward
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Ceremony
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Ritual

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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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We've lost more men to homosexuality than we ever did in two world wars.
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Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.
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Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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