There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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Solitude is un-American.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG