Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGAs long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
ERICA JONGArt is always an energy exchange.
ERICA JONGThe best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
ERICA JONGWhat was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONGAnger is really disappointed hope.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGLife has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
ERICA JONGWhy does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONGEveryone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
ERICA JONGMany 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 JONGImages are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
ERICA JONGWe are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
ERICA JONGTake your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
ERICA JONGI don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
ERICA JONGI hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
ERICA JONG