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.
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 look forward and see myself look back.
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The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
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If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.
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Because I loved myself, I was loved.
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Every time I catch myself saying, “Oh no, you shouldn’t try that,” I think, “Yes, I should.”
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.
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Home is where your books are.
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Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved…Freedom is…not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.
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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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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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
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We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
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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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