There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
ERICA JONGIt’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I 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.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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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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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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