Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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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No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Solitude is un-American.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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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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