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Erica Jong

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
ERICA JONG

Famemillion Idea People Wrong You
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
ERICA JONG

Anything Avoid Love Say Want You
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONG

Book Box Brimimg Incendiary Match Material Reader Strike
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
ERICA JONG

Crack Cynical Everything Love People Something Subsesive Tell Want
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONG

Daughter Example Exhortation Freedom Give Must Given Something
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG

Flesh Learn Lesson Merely On Pass
There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONG

Airplane Athlete No Turbulent
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.
ERICA JONG

Achievement Been Denigarte Divorce Hard Marriage Much Three Time Women Work World
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONG

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
ERICA JONG

Love Loved Myself
I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONG

Abortion Again Back Battle Birth Going Hope Keep Over Right Same Territory Win
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
Is perception equivalent to existence?
ERICA JONG

Equivalent Existence Perception

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