There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONGThough my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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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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