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.
ERICA JONGThe trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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I want you. I want you. I want you. Anything to avoid saying: I love you.
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The sexuality doesn’t end. It really doesn’t. You’re sexual your whole life, if you’re a sexual person.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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I don’t think that sex necessarily produces intimacy.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Home is where your books are.
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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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