The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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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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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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