Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
ERICA JONGThey keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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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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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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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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