Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGLife is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Home is where your books are.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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