How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
ERICA JONGA book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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In a world where women work three times as hard for half as much, our achievement has been denigrated, both marriage and divorce have turned against us, our motherhood has been used as an obstacle to our success, our passion as a trap.
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Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartednes s that requires the true courage — however often we are hurt as a result of it.
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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 by exhortation.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
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Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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To name oneself is the first act of both the poet and the revolutionary.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Before things are written down they don’t exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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