I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
ERICA JONGFlesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
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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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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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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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Of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Art is always an energy exchange.
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Women are their own worst enemies. And guilt is the main weapon of self-torture . . . Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.
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