Poems List
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
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Allow me to put the record straight. I am 46 and have been for some years past.
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As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
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Charlie had that defensive contempt for homosexuals which people often have when their own sexuality is an embarrassment to them.
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Coupling doesn’t always have to do with sex. . . . Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth) I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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Fear of Flying.
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Erica Jong nasceu em Nova Iorque. Ela se formou no Barnard College e obteve um mestrado em literatura inglesa na Universidade de Columbia. Começou sua carreira escrevendo poesia, publicando seu primeiro livro de poemas, "Fruits & Vegetables", em 1971. Seu romance de estreia, "Medo de Voar", foi um best-seller e a catapultou para a fama, tornando-a um ícone da segunda onda do feminismo. Jong continuou a escrever romances, incluindo "A Mulher Inventada" (How to Save Your Own Life), "A Deusa Interior" (The Golden Fleece) e "A Feiticeira" (Witches). Além de ficção, ela também escreveu ensaios, memórias e livros infantis. Seu trabalho frequentemente aborda temas de liberdade sexual, identidade feminina e a busca por autoaceitação. Erica Jong continua ativa como escritora e comentarista, mantendo sua voz influente na literatura contemporânea.