# Fear of Flying

- Author: [Erica Jong](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong.md)
- Quotes: 14
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying

## 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/its-only-when.md)

Topics: [the future](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-future.md)

> Sheer bitchiness can be a sort of style.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/sheer-bitchiness-can.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/i-want-you.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

> I'm very dependant. I fall apart regularly.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/im-very-dependant.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/dancing-is-like.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/the-zipless-fuck.md)

Topics: [passion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/passion.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/im-just-trying.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md)

> Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/exceptional-people-are.md)

> Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/silence-is-the.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/the-ultimate-sexist.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/underneath-it-all.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/desire.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/each-one-an-antidote.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/everyones-a-little.md)

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

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erica-jong/fear-of-flying/pregnancy-seemed-like.md)

Topics: [freedom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/freedom.md)