Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGIn loving life you love what can’t survive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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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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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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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I’m doing something right.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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