Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.
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It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.
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People are interested in their own sexuality and they’ve always reflected it in their art. End of story.
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Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
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I don’t think you could ever know just how truly special you are that even on the darkest nights you are my brightest star
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Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.
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Solitude is un-American.
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Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.
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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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Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
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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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