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 JONGI don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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It’s horrible getting older. I mean, it’s wonderful because you see the circles of life get completed. But it’s horrible losing your looks.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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Conflict is the soul of literature.
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A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
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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 greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I’m thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho.
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I don’t think you will ever fully understand how you’ve touched my life and made me who I am.
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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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How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one’s nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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