Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGIn a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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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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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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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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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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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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