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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)

Erica Jong

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.
ERICA JONG

Act Currency Exist Fix Given Kind Quite Same Thing Way Word Written
Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
ERICA JONG

Find Going Later Life Often Own Poem Predict Write
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG

Deal Humor Imposible Most One Series Situation Tool
Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.
ERICA JONG

Disaaperard Leave Memory Most Possession Star Trace Transient
If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
ERICA JONG

All Back Friend God Made Most Need Pass Remind Them
If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
ERICA JONG

Fear Need Ourselves Sufficient Unto Web
I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
ERICA JONG

Definition Elise Erotica Like Nobody Pornography Somebody
The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
ERICA JONG

Anything Dilemma Even More One Risk
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
ERICA JONG

Believe Death Men never Own People Possibility Reason Send War Young
Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
ERICA JONG

Colour Neither Sex Soul
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.
ERICA JONG

Been Country Daughter Feminist Greatest Lover Mary People Person
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG

Bluntest Instrument Silence
The trick is not how much pain you feel – but how much joy you feel
ERICA JONG

Feel How Joy Much Pain Trick
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.
ERICA JONG

Activities Body Creativity Dictator Knowledge Lead Often Own Seen Sex
Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
ERICA JONG

Busines Color Early Every Family Get Life Like Orgasms Someday Television Woman
As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
ERICA JONG

Act Age Crumb Disable Little Paranoid Power Utterly Women

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