There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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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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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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