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 JONGBetrayal betrays the betrayer.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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If you don’t have time to do it right you must have time to do it right you must have time to do it over. If you don’t know where you are going, how do you know when you get there? If you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.
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Often I find that poems predict what I’m going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
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A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
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The soul is awakened through service.
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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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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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Courage is the only Magic worth having.
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