Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGA poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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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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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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I don’t know what the definition of pornography is and nobody else does either. Pornography is somebody else’s erotica that you don’t like.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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