the belly may be kept firm through numerous pregnancies
by means of sit-ups jogging dancing (think of Russian ballerinas)
& the cunt
as far as I know is ageless possibly immortal becoming simply
more open more quick to understand more dry-eyed than at 22
which
after all is what you were dying for (as you ravaged
islands of turtles beehives oysterbeds the udders of cows)
desperate to censor changes which you simply might have let play
over you lying back listening opening yourself
letting the years make love the only way
(poor blunderers)
they know
Quotes by Erica Jong
Hooked for two years now on wrinkle creams creams for
crowsfeet ugly lines (if only there were one!)
any perfumed grease which promises youth beauty
not truth but all I need on earth I've been studying
how women age
The soul is awakened through service.
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
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 everything, you risk even more.
I am thinking of the onion again. . . . Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples.
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Women really must have equal pay for equal work, equality in work at home, and reproductive choices. Men must press for these things also. They must cease to see them as "women's issues" and learn that they are everyone's issues - essential to survival on planet Earth.

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