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Erica Jong Quotes

To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary. When we take away the right to an individual name, we symbolically take away the right to be an individual. Immigration officials did this to refugees; husbands routinely do it to wives. - Erica Jong

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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier. - Erica Jong

Nothing said or done there should morally count. Everyone is exhausted. - Erica Jong

Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world. - Erica Jong

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