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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Erica Jong

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Erica Jong
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 26
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Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Turbulent
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Atheists
Airplane
Atheist

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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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This is the sad bed of chosen chastity because you are miles and mountains away.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent.
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... what is great poetry, after all, but the continuation of the human voice after death?
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the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
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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 only rule I have when writing is to try to tell the truth. That doesn't mean you can't exaggerate, edit, rewrite things to make them more dramatic. But emotional truth is what I look for in writing.
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I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?
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A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.
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Famous people complain about fame, but they never want to give it back, myself included.
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Poetry is what we turn to in the most emotional moments of our life - when a beloved friend dies, when a baby is born or when we fall in love.
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The absolute bedrock of our independence is having control over our own bodies. You cannot be independent if the government or someone else says whether or not you can use birth control. Unless you're in charge of your body, you're not in charge of anything. I think that's really the bottom line of feminism.
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But if the gods do not exist at all - then we are lost,' I said. On the contrary - we are found!' said Aesop. But when we are afraid, who can we turn to, if not the gods?' Ourselves. We turn to ourselves anyway. We only pretend there are gods and that they care about us. It is a comforting falsehood.
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Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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I don't cook. My mother didn't cook. My daughter doesn't cook.
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