There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGLove is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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