People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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Why does life need evidence of life?
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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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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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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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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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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