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.
ERICA JONGDo all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
More Erica Jong Quotes
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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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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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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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A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
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I hope we don’t have to keep going back over the same territory and winning the same rights over and over again. The battle for birth control. The battle for abortion.
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People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.
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Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
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Always do the things you fear the most. Courage is an acquired taste, like caviar.
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I look forward and see myself look back.
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There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.
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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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If we can be sufficient unto ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs.
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Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?
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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 dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more.
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