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Fear of Flying QUOTES

Fear of Flying QUOTES

1 " Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. 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. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

2 " I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

3 " Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

4 " Any system was a straightjacket if you insisted on adhering to it so totally and humorlessly. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

5 " You don't have to beat a woman if you can make her feel guilty. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

6 " Husband and wife have no time left to spend together. Marriage took away our one reason for getting married. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

7 " We came to realize how little married couples see of each other once they crawl in the bourgeois box. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

8 " The virtues about marriage were mostly negative virtues. Being unmarried in a man's world was such a hassle that anything had to be better. Marriage was better. But not much. Damned clever, I thought, how men had made life so intolerable for single women that most would gladly embrace even bad marriages instead. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

9 " We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

10 " It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present, how much of daily life is usually spent making plans and attempting to control the future. Never mind that you have no control over it. The idea of the future is our greatest entertainment, amusement, and time-killer. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

11 " Tears are a form of communication - like speech - and require a listener. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

12 " 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. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

13 " There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

14 " There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

15 " In a certain sense, you do write to seduce the world, but when it happens, you begin to feel like a whore. The disparity between your life and your work turns out to be as great as ever. And the people seduced by your work are usually seduced by all the wrong reasons. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

16 " There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is nothing gained by giving in to the pressures of group vulgarity. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

17 " There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

18 " We drove to the hotel and said goodbye. How hypocritical to go upstairs with a man you don't want to fuck, leave the one you do sitting there alone, and then, in a state of great excitement, fuck the one you don't want to fuck while pretending he's the one you do. That's called fidelity. That's called monogamy. That's called civilization and its discontents. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

19 " I tried to keep myself away from him by using con words like "fidelity" and "adultery", by telling myself that he would interfere with my work, that I had him I'd be too happy to write. I tried to tell myself I was hurting Bennett, hurting myself, making a spectacle of myself. I was. But nothing helped. I was possessed. The minute he walked into a room and smiled at me, I was a goner. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying

20 " The zipless fuck is absolutely pure. It is free of ulterior motives. There is no power game . The man is not "taking" and the woman is not "giving." No one is attempting to cuckold a husband or humiliate a wife. No one is trying to prove anything or get anything out of anyone. The zipless fuck is the purest thing there is. And it is rarer than the unicorn. And I have never had one. "

― Erica Jong , Fear of Flying