The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
ERICA JONGEvery time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Solitude is un-American.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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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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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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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
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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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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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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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