Erica Jong - Fear of Fifty: a midlife memoir (1994)

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Everything we need is happening within us. The focus on reports of others is only a distraction from the needs of our own spirit. Addiction grows fat from our chronic quashing of the inner life. We believe the spiritual does not exist because we have made insufficient space for it to manifest in our lives.

Erica Jong

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

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Addiction is the disease of our age. It is cunning and powerful. It proceeds from our chronic spiritual hunger and is nourished by our focus on getting and spending, and on news and gossip outside ourselves.

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You don't get to choose what you get famous for and you don't get to control which of your life's many struggles gets to stand for you.

Erica Jong

Never follow a dog act. You know you're on the skids when you play yourself in the movie version of your life.

Erica Jong