Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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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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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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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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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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