When I was a ten-year old bookworm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they were icons, it used to amaze me that these remote people could provoke me to love.
Erica JongThere's another part of getting older that's just wonderful. Which is you see the way the stories turn out with peoples' lives.
Erica JongDivorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
Erica Jong