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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
Author
Feminist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
New York City
New York
Erica Mann Jong
Atheists
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Turbulent
Airplanes

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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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I see the whole episode in my memory as if it were a very crisply photographed black and white movie. Directed by Bergman perhaps.We are playing ourselves in the movie version. If only we could escape from always having to play ourselves !
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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket.
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
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Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.
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If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.
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I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.
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I am not sure if love is a salve or just a deeper kind of wound.
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writers do not choose their subjects their subjects choose them.
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All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
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I see that the greatest thing about getting older is how your judgment changes and how you come to understand the cycles of life. And you keep having these amazing flashes of understanding.
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Fear is a sign-usually a sign that I'm doing something right.
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We all have fantasies about sex that are more perfect than anything in reality.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I had been a feminist all my life, but the big problem was how to make your feminism jibe with you unappeasable hunger for male bodies.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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