A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGI see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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