They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
ERICA JONGMotherhood cannot finally be delegated.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Friends love misery… our misery is what endears us to our friends.
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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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I look forward and see myself look back.
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The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.
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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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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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The camera creates a magical transformation. It’s not enough to exist; we must chronicle that existence. …
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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If, every day, I dare to remember that I am here on loan, that this house, this hillside, these minutes are all leased to me, not given, I will never despair.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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