Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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The 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.
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I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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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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Keeping a journal implies hope.
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Home is where your books are.
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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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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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