Solitude is un-American.
ERICA JONGThe only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
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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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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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It is the nature of those books we call classics to wait patiently on the shelf for us to grow into them.
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Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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