Motherhood cannot finally be delegated.
ERICA JONGI have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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Is perception equivalent to existence?
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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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Though my friends envied me because I always seemed so cheerful and confident, I was secretly terrified of practically everything.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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Love is love, but marriage is an investment.
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Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
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Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That’s one reason old men can send them to war.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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Every time we hit an air pocket and the plane dropped about five hundred feet (leaving my stomach in my mouth)
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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