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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.

Erica Jong

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG

All Ambivalence Dance Own Rhythm Tune Wonderful
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.
ERICA JONG

Birth Courage Do Fact Love Mother never Quote She Want Wing Wings
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONG

Affair Before Marriage Night Novel One Poem Short Someone Stand Story
Art is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONG

Always Art Energy exchange
It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
ERICA JONG

Any Courage Lead Life Take
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.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
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.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
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.
ERICA JONG

Blame Feel Forever Miserable Nemiest One Right Someone With Wonderful
Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG

Colour Neither Sex Soul
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
ERICA JONG

Away Drive Easier Goodbye Saying
Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
ERICA JONG

Enemy Feel Guilt Guilty Man Sell Show Tortue Weapon Woman Women Worst
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG

Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
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.
ERICA JONG

Anything Even Going Know More Must Night Right Risk Time
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
ERICA JONG

Being Cease Control Fear Fearful Let Me

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