Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
ERICA JONG
Breast-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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Humor is one of the most serious tools we have for dealing with impossible situations.
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We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.
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Photographs are the most curious indicators of reality.
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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
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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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There’s always a backlash against progressive ideas.
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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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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
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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
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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.
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Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
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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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Art is always an energy exchange.
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In loving life you love what can’t survive.
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Don’t ye know that ev’ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?
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Unhappiness is our element. We come to believe we can’t function without it.
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