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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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Bearable
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Divorce
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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We are finally driven to monogamy not by morality but by exhaustion.
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I actually think leaving your children alone to fantasize, to write, to make projects on their own is good for them. Breathing down their necks is a form of control. Children should have their own space.
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It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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