Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
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
-
-
Flesh is merely a lesson. We learn it & pass on.
ERICA JONG -
I believe that women should live for love, for motherhood and for intellect, and I believe we shouldn’t have to choose. And I believe that’s always been difficult for women, to express themselves intellectually, maternally, and passionately.
ERICA JONG -
Why does life need evidence of life?
ERICA JONG -
Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss.
ERICA JONG -
I vowed to give up sex, bacon, and air travel if I ever made it back to terra firma in one piece.
ERICA JONG -
There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.
ERICA JONG -
A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.
ERICA JONG -
Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.
ERICA JONG -
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.” – Socrates (470-399 B.C.) “Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t
ERICA JONG -
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
ERICA JONG -
Really true intimacy is rare and it depends on other things besides sex.
ERICA JONG -
The trick is not how much pain you feel–but how much joy you feel. Any idiot can feel pain.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
It’s easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.
ERICA JONG -
Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.
ERICA JONG -
What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation.
ERICA JONG -
A poem (surely someone has said this before) is a one-night stand, a short story a love affair, and a novel a marriage.
ERICA JONG -
The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.
ERICA JONG -
Compose with utter freedom and edit with utter discipline.
ERICA JONG -
The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton’s first law of jealousy.
ERICA JONG -
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG -
Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG -
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.
ERICA JONG