And what if I don’t want forgiveness?
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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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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You can’t be creative and still be a good girl.
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You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner.
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I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
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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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Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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 myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself.
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Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
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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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Home is where your books are.
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My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
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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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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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You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.
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