Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
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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Solitude is un-American.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it.
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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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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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How could one create life with someone who represented death?
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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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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
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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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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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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.
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