Allow me to put the record straight. I am forty-six and have been for some years past.
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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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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The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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