There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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.
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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