Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
ERICA JONGWe were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Narrative- and image-making creatures like humans don’t feel any experience is complete unless it’s recorded.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.
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