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• Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

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  Witty, Powerful, Women

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.187, Open Road Media

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• I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.

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  Writing, Glowing, Dust

  Erica Jong (1999). “What Do Women Want?: Bread, Roses, Sex, Power”, Perennial

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• I can live without it all - love with its blood pump, sex with its messy hungers, men with their peacock strutting, their silly sexual baggage, their wet tongues in my ear.

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  Love, Sex, Silly

  Erica Jong (2013). “Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected”, p.238, Open Road Media

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• Poetry is fired by love.

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  Poetry Is

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• As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

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  Writing, Past, Thinking

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• Singularity shows something wrong in the mind.

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  Mind, Adaptability, Shows

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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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  Atheist, Comforting, Atheism

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Where is Hollywood located? Chiefly between the ears. In that part of the American brain lately vacated by God.

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  Funny, God, California

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

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  Marriage, Loyalty, World

  Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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• Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said.

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  Inspirational, Atheist, Voice

  Erica Jong (2013). “Sappho's Leap: A Novel”, p.266, Open Road Media

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• Never joke with the press. Irony does not translate into newsprint.

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  Doe, Irony, Journalism

  Erica Jong (2013). “Shylock's Daughter: A Novel of Love in Venice”, p.27, Open Road Media

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• Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

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  Believe, Artist, Yield

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• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

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  Laughter, Writing, Silence

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.17, Penguin

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• we all carry the Houses of our Youth inside, and our Parents, too, grown small enough to fit within our Hearts.

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  Family, Home, Heart

  Erica Jong (1981). “Fanny”

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• The older we get, the more Jewish we become in my family.

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  My Family

  Erica Jong (2006). “Fear of Fifty”, p.67, Penguin

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• As yet we use our media only for selling things - including, of course, political candidates. What will happen when someone masters the art of selling souls?

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  Art, Media, Selling Things

  Erica Jong (1994). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.4, Grove Press

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• I think professionalism is important, and professionalism means you get paid.

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  Mean, Thinking, Important

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• Once I worshipped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

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  Thinking, Dying, Young

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.375, Open Road Media

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• Venice is ever the fragile labyrinth at the edge of the sea and it reminds us how brief and perilous the journeys of our lives are; perhaps that is why we love it so. City of plagues and brief liaisons, city of lingering deaths and incendiary loves, city of chimeras, nightmares, pigeons, bells. You are the only city in the world whose dialect has a word for the shimmer of canal water reflected on the ceiling of a room.

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  Journey, Sea, Cities

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• It was easy enough to kill yourself in a fit of despair. It was easy enough to play the martyr. It was harder to do nothing. To endure your life. To wait.

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  Play, Waiting, Despair

  Erica Jong (2013). “Fear of Flying: 40th Anniversary Edition”, p.387, Open Road Media

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• When everyone thinks they know you, it's hard not to be guarded.

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  Thinking, Guarded, Knows

  "Oprah, Kitty and Me" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2010.

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• I have a very sensitive nose. I identify with dogs. I understand the world through my nose.

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  Dog, Noses, World

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• Harriet van Horne He makes love to me expertly, mechanically, coldly... He's pressing all my buttons, as if I were a pocket calculator.

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  Making Love, Buttons, Pockets

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• I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

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  Writing, Thinking, Who I Am

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• But come back in November or December, in February or March, when the fog, la nebbia, settles upon the city like a marvelous monster, and you will have little trouble believing that things can appear and disappear in this labyrinthine city, or that time here could easily slip in its sprockets and take you, willingly or unwillingly, back.

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  Believe, Fog, Cities

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