A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.
ERICA JONGWomen are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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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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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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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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The soul is awakened through service.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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