It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONGBreast-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.
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it’s because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that’s the most revolutionary insight of all.
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And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.
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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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What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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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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Anger is really disappointed hope.
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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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A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.
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My mother wanted me to be her wings, to fly as she never quite had the courage to do. I love her for that. I love the fact that she wanted to give birth to her own wings.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
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If you imagine the world listening, you’ll never write a line. That’s why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
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