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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Erica Jong

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
ERICA JONG

Dumb Guy Hardly Lot See Smart Women
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.
ERICA JONG

Back Come Daughter Different Freedom Insist Leash License Loose Mother Need Reject Share She
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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Drop Every Time Feel Five Hit Hundred Leave Mouth Plain Pocket Stomach
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.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONG

Being Every Excuse Judge Look Procrastinate Scare
Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
ERICA JONG

Catch Every Myself Say Time Try Yes
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG

Feel How Idiot Joy Much Pain Trick
Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
ERICA JONG

Actually Believe Courage Cowardice Cynicism Height Innocense Many People Require Result Today
It 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.
ERICA JONG

Brave Even Everything Fight More Really Risk Trouble Worth
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
ERICA JONG

Always Anything Before Beginner Naked never Start Writing
People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
ERICA JONG

Always Art End Interest People Reflect Sexuality Story Wn
You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
ERICA JONG

Bad Creative Equated Human Juice Long Side Will Women
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
ERICA JONG

Keep Legless Men Silent Speak Walk Women
Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONG

Courage Have Magic Only Worth
Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
ERICA JONG

Complete Creature Experience Feel Image Narrative Unless Record

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

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