There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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