Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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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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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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