Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGThe soul is awakened through service.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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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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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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