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Quotes from Fear of Flying — Erica Jong

born 1942 United States

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14 quotes

It's only when you're forbidden to talk about the future that you suddenly realize how much the future normally occupies the present.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Fear of Flying (1973)

The ultimate sexist put-down: the prick which lies down on the job.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.

Fear of Flying (1973)

I'm just trying to lead my own fucking life if I can manage to find it in all this confusion.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Each one an antidote to the one that went before. Each one a reaction, an about-face, a rebound.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love...

Fear of Flying (1973)

I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Dancing is like fucking... it doesn't matter how you look - just concentrate on how you feel.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Fear of Flying (1973)

I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.

Fear of Flying (1973)

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.

Fear of Flying (1973)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Erica Jong (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.