There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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