Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGA new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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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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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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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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