No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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