Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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