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ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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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.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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