Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONGYoung people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
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Why does life need evidence of life?
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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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.
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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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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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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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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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Home is where your books are.
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Solitude is un-American.
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