Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
ERICA JONGI vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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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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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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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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