Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGOften 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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Home is where your books are.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Our empathy for others as an excuse to underpay us.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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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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