Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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