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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Erica Jong

How could one create life with someone who represented death?
ERICA JONG

Create Death Life One Represented Someone
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
ERICA JONG

Book Burrow Experience Into Life Passive Profound Read
Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

Age Ceremony Coming Divorce Generation
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
ERICA JONG

Firm First Follow Go Home Live Long Minute Porno Reaction Screw Ten
Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
ERICA JONG

Freedom Gain Loss Loving Much Someone Think
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG

Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
ERICA JONG

Against Always Backlash Idea Progressive
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
Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
ERICA JONG

Endear Friend Love Misery Our
The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
ERICA JONG

End Life Person Sexual Sexuality
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
And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
ERICA JONG

Forgiveness If Want What
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG

Bluntest Instrument Silence
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG

Beacon One Piece Sex Travel Vowed
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
ERICA JONG

Alternate Country Create Hard Hate Myself One People Person Place Prizefighter Try Writer

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