Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONGHome is where your books are.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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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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Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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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Solitude is un-American.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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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I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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I have accepted fear as a part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
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