As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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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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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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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 by exhortation.
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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.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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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 truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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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 you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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