I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONGWomen 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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