Courage is the only Magic worth having.
ERICA JONGOf all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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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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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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